ROYAL watcher Colin Edwards is demanding a change in the law after child sex charges against him were dropped.

Mr Edwards, from Macclesfield, said he was relieved the charges of offences against a boy 24 years ago have been withdrawn. But the 59-year-old wants a change in the law "to protect the innocent" and is considering sueing the police for distress.

Mr Edwards, who has devoted his life to photographing the Royal family, is on first name terms with many of the Windsors. He had been charged with indecent assault and a serious sex offence on a boy between 1976 and 1977 at his Macclesfield home.

Mr Edwards said: "I should never have been charged. It was a very weak case. I have been to hell and back. I think my anonymity should have been preserved until conviction."